The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-23

new ~. d. Anayer, az ASDury church
last Sunday, took his text from the 18th
chapter of St. Luke, 18th to 21st verses.
inclusive. He told his hearers it would
do them good to read the text over once
week, and it might do the reader good
to read it at least once and save the
trouble of printing it here. The text is
long one, and so was the sermon. as it
occupied full hour in delivery. But
Mr.. Thayer is a very interesting speaker,
q strong, active thinker, imaginative
and poetic in his expressions, and he
commanded the interest of his audience
to the close of his discourse. The sub
ject was cevetousness, which he defined
to be i',ordsnGte or undue desire to &C.
cumulate property. The subject covers
wide field in social and civil life, and
the speaker left some points unde-
termined and others untouched, and is
might be safe to predict the subject will
be taken up in another discourse. The
speaker made clear this fact, that all
rich men are not covetous. They make
money because they are men of brains.
active, thorough, systematic, liberal
men who can survey a wide field, and
are quick to see opportunities that dull
men never see, and all their wealth is
accumulated in honest and legitimate
ways. There is another fact patent to
all which the gentleman did not touch
upon There are many poor men who
are covetOus, and their covetousness is a
hindrance to their getting on in the
world. They are envious Of their more
prosperous neighbors and covet their
goods. They like better to get q dollar
by sharp practice or taking advantage
than TO earn it by hard labor or legiti-
mate business. They are poor because
they are parsimonious in their expendi-
lures. They waste time and labor with
poor tools and keep farm animals no
one can make a profit on, call their
parsimonious expenditure economy and
are covetous. They forget I" the liberal
soul shall be made fat" s.
The pious people of Asbury organized
themselves into church last Sunday,
under the forms and polity of the Pres
byterian denomination, and adopted
the name "The First Presbyterian
church of Bristol" Rev. O. B. Thayer
managed the organizing and highly
commended the government, discipline.
and polity of the Presbyterians. At the
same time he readily admitted that
parts of the creed had become a dead
letter, and, so far as he was concerned,
he had folded them up and laid them on
the shelf of eternal innocuous desuetude.
Miss Winnie Bishops health is slight.
ly improved, and she rode out short
distance on Sunday. She is under treat.
ment now by physician of Milwaukee.
Mr.. Lemuel Spencer returned from
Rockford on Friday.
Mr.. ]. A. LOOMS has been entertain.
ing one of his nephews, Mr.. Edward
Loomis, of Burlington.
Mr.. A. III. Stevens is treating his two
daughters, Mrs. Ashbel Epson and Mrs.
Philander Buck, to trip to Iowa, to
visit their brother Edward. Mr.. Stevens
started with his daughters on Tuesday.
DIR. Ray G. Thayer is announced to
lecture on temperance in Asbury Free
church next Sunday at 7:30 P. M. The
temperance question is one of the vital
questions of the day, and it is high time
the people aroused themselves to the
enormity of the evils of the LIQUOR
traffic. When the people will it they
can prohibit it.
Mr.. ]. A. LOOMS and his daughter,
Mrs. PAMELA Tarbell, have been visiting
relatives in Burlington, Wis.
Mrs. ]. A. Loomis' health has consid-
erably improved of late.
Mr.. A. C. Joslyn has a flock of ID
sheep which sheared 118 lbs. of washed
wool, or nearly 81 lbs. per head. The
wool was bought by Dave Stewart, and
was delivered at Salem this week.